Rajpal Abeynayake was the Editor in Chief of the
Daily News (Sri Lanka)
The ''Daily News'' is an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka. It is now published by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), a government-owned corporation. The newspaper commenced publishing on 3 January 1918. D. R. Wij ...
, assuming duties in October 2012 until January 2015. He has been working as a journalist since 1984 and is an attorney-at-law.
Abeynayake was a former editor of the
Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)
''Sunday Observer'' is a weekly English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka, published on Sundays. The ''Sunday Observer'' and its sister newspapers the '' Daily News'', '' Dinamina'', '' Silumina'' and ''Thinakaran'' are published by Associated N ...
and the founder Editor of Sunday
Lakbima News, which he developed into an award-winning national newspaper during a span of five and half years.
He has been adjudged Editor's Guild columnist of the year.
He was educated at
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia (abbreviated as STC), is a fee-levying Anglican selective entry boys' private school in Sri Lanka. Started as a private school by James Chapman, the first Anglican Bishop of Colombo, in 1851, it was founded as ...
, The
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...
and the
Sri Lanka Law College
Sri Lanka Law College (abbreviated as SLLC), formerly known as Ceylon Law College, is a law college, and the only legal institution where one can enrol as an Attorney-at-Law in Sri Lanka. It was established in 1874, under the then Council of Le ...
where he received the prestigious Hector Jayewardene gold medal for address to the jury.
References
External links
The Daily News Lanka
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people